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How Canadians communicate [electronic resource] / edited by David Taras, Frits Pannekoek, and Maria Bakardjieva

Published
Calgary : University of Calgary Press, 2003.
Physical Description
1 online resource (332 pages)
Additional Creators
Taras, David, 1950-, Bakardjieva, Maria, 1959-, and Pannekoek, Frits, 1947-
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Contents
Introduction: The new world of communications in Canada / David Taras -- from master to partner to bit player: the diminishing capacity of Government Policy / Richard Schultz -- No clear channel: the rise and possible fall of Media convergence / Vincent A. Carlin -- Canadian memory institutions and the digital revolution: The last five years / Frits Pannekoek -- Printed matter: Canadian newspapers / Christopher Dornan -- publishing and perishing with no parachute / Aritha van Herk -- Canadian television: industry, audience and technology / Rebecca Sullivan and Bart Beaty -- In from the cold: aboriginal media in Canada / Cora Voyageur -- Film and Film culture in Canada: which way forward: / Malek Khouri -- No future? The Canadian music industries / Will Straw -- "Unhyping" the Internet: at home with a new medium / Maria Bakardjieva -- Telehealth in Canada / M.A. Herbert, P.A. Jennett, and R.E. Scott -- from the "Electronic Cottage" to the "Silicon Sweatshop": Social implications of Telemediated Work in Canada Graham D. Longford and Barbara A. Crow.
Summary
This is a timely collection that chronicles the extraordinary changes that are shaking the foundations of Canada's cultural and communications industries in the twenty-first century. With essays from some of Canada's foremost media scholars, this book discusses the major trends and developments that have taken place in government policy, corporate strategies, creative communities, and various communication mediums: newspapers, films, cellular and palm technology, the Internet, libraries, TV, music, and book publishing. This volume addresses many issues unique to Canada in a broader framework of global communications. Specifically, it looks at new media communications in Aboriginal communities, the changing role of the state in cultural institutions, the conglomeratisation of the media, the threat of American and global communications to Canadian voices, and the struggle to retain and reclaim local and national identities in the face of globalisation. With articles from academics and professionals across Canada, this book provides the most current perspectives on communication in Canada in a rapidly changing world of technology and global communication.
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ISBN
9781552383674 (electronic bk.)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Technical Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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